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This circumftance convinces me that I planted 

 them too near each other, otherwife nny crop would 

 have been much larger; but as it is, furely it is 

 no inconfiderable produce from fo fmall a piece 

 of ground. 



Whether this plant will be a pleafant and nutri- 

 tive food for cattle I cannot at prefent fay, having 

 yet made no fair trial of it. I gave fome of the 

 leaves of it to my cows, but they declined eating 

 it; it was hardly a fair trial, as the cows were juft 

 brought home to be milked, out of a very fine rich 

 meadow, where there was plenty of grafs and very 

 fweet herbage, and their bellies were full. The 

 pigs ate it voracioufly. 



On the 19th of January 1789, I weighed the 

 roots again, and then they weighed only 29Slb. 

 having loft 4'2{lb. fince they were taken out of the 

 ground; but this lofs of weight is not fo very ex- 

 traordinary, when we confider the juicinefs and 

 fucculency of the roots when taken up, and the 

 dry and frofty weather we have had ever fince, and 

 that they were kept in a dry chamber, covered with 

 ftraw to preferve them from the inclemency of the 

 weather. They were apparently much drier, but 

 were found and in good prefervation, and no ways 

 injured by the froft. 



lalfo 



